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Topic: What’s your Favorite FF extension/tweak Posted: 25 June 2005 at 3:00pm |
mine was sent to me by a friend:
If you're on a broadband or better connection, here is something that will really speed Firefox up:
1.Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:
network.http.pipelining
network.http.proxy.pipelining
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time.
When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.
2. Alter the entries as follows:
Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true"
Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true"
Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests". This sets the max number of requests it will make at once. I set mint to 25
3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to "0".
This
value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on
information it receives. Depending on your connection you're pages will
load MUCH faster now. |
NOTE: Don't go nuts with the maxrequests parameter. If you set it too
high some sites with routers set up for that sort of thing may regard
it as a DOS attack and automatically ban your ip.
Edited by dpyers - 25 June 2005 at 3:00pm
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Posted: 25 June 2005 at 3:02pm |
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Ohhh I'd have to say:
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=766&application=firefox
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Posted: 25 June 2005 at 3:13pm |
lol
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Posted: 25 June 2005 at 3:56pm |
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Definetly adblock
but I have mousegestures, spellbound, etc installed as well
and dypers i have been using that tweak for about 6 mounths and it works great.
You can also increase the maxrequests for IE using a registry tweak.
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Posted: 25 June 2005 at 5:21pm |
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I know about the IE trick. Used to be an option but I guess some people found it to be to confusing - lol.
Any recommendations for a FF ftp extension?
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Posted: 25 June 2005 at 6:33pm |
Thanks man... that was a HUGE improvement.
dpyers wrote:
mine was sent to me by a friend:
If you're on a broadband or better connection, here is something that will really speed Firefox up:
1.Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries: network.http.pipelining network.http.proxy.pipelining network.http.pipelining.maxrequests Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.
2. Alter the entries as follows: Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true" Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true" Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests". This sets the max number of requests it will make at once. I set mint to 25
3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to "0". This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives. Depending on your connection you're pages will load MUCH faster now. |
NOTE: Don't go nuts with the maxrequests parameter. If you set it too high some sites with routers set up for that sort of thing may regard it as a DOS attack and automatically ban your ip.
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Posted: 25 June 2005 at 9:05pm |
MOUSE GESTURES
Definitely mouse gestures all the way. I end up trying to use them in
IE when I must use IE. But holy moly - they make FF SOOOO much easier
and faster to use.
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Posted: 25 June 2005 at 9:11pm |
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